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FELT TIP by Elizabeth Price shows in Glasgow as part of a restaging of her Artangel exhibition SLOW DANS.
FELT TIP is the second in a trio of video works that take the pulse of recent cultural history by closely studying both its surface appearances and its underlying tendencies. The central pivot of a trilogy that also includes the works KOHL and Teachers, FELT TIP traces (and graphically highlights) a fluctuating line that separates the latent from the visible, using a distinctive arrangement of vertically oriented screens to show how what happens above is regularly shaped and informed by what goes on beneath. In its subject matter, too, the piece hints at a kind of threshold moment – an intangible but widely felt ‘tipping point’ – where an imagined break from the past opens up new perspectives on the future. Price locates this transitional moment in the ferment of the 1980s, at a time where the coal-fired infrastructure that used to power the motor of the industrial economy had its thunder stolen by the glittering promise of electronic networks, and the allure of a new technocracy.
FELT TIP (2018) was commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Film and Video Umbrella, and Nottingham Contemporary with support from Arts Council England.
